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OMIS 430 Exam 2 SELU WoosleyCapacity - correct answer ✔✔the upper limit or ceiling on the load that an operating unit can handle
Capacity needs to include: - correct answer ✔✔1. Equipment
2. Space
3. Employee Skills
Strategic Capacity Planning Goal - correct answer ✔✔To achieve a match between the long-term supply
capabilities of an organization and the predicted level of long-term demand
Overcapacity - correct answer ✔✔operating costs that are too high
(overtime - hire someone new)
Undercapacity - correct answer ✔✔strained resources and possible loss of customers
(understaffed - producing more than needed)
Capacity Planning Questions: - correct answer ✔✔1. What kind of capacity is needed?
2. How much is needed to match demand?
3. When is it needed?
Capacity Decisions - correct answer ✔✔-impact the ability of the organization to meet future demands
-affect operating costs
-are a major determinant of initial cost
-often involve long-term commitment of resources
-can affect competitiveness
-affect the ease of management
-have become more important and complex due to globalization
, -need to be planned for in advance due to their consumption of financial and other resources
Design Capacity - correct answer ✔✔The maximum output rate or service capacity an operation,
process, or facility is designed for
(what the unit can handle or produce [on paper])
Effective Capacity - correct answer ✔✔Design capacity minus allowances such as personal time and
maintenance
("if we choose to not run it that fast" "how is the class limit determined?" - by the number of desks and
size of room)
Actual Output - correct answer ✔✔rate of output actually achieved - cannot exceed effective capacity
Measure capacity in units that: - correct answer ✔✔do not require updating
Efficiency - correct answer ✔✔= actual output / effective capacity X 100
Utilization - correct answer ✔✔= actual output / design capacity X 100
Determinants of Effective Capacity - correct answer ✔✔-Facilities
-Product and service factors
-Process factors
-Human factors
-Policy factors
-Operational factors
-Supply chain factors
-External factors
Service Capacity Planning - correct answer ✔✔-the need to be near customers (convenience)
-the inability to store services (cannot store for consumption later)
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